The #mebourne I love is a well attended mid week talk on Singaporean literature where the Indigenous Acknowledgement of Country is delivered in English, Malay and Tamil
I wonder how much of the current anti-social silliness around AI tools is that our culture has so glorified working in tech as the ultimate job that people are inventing pointless and unhelpful things to have an excuse to stay in the field rather than moving on to something more useful?
So weird hearing people still using the phrase “avoid it like the plague” when we’ve conclusively established most people aren’t that committed to avoiding plagues
There should be a law that streaming platforms cannot increase their prices without providing verification of a corresponding increase in payouts to artists/content creators
Today I learned the Australian government designates a selection of phone numbers that look real but will never be actually active for use in TVs or movies. Could be useful if you ever need a fake number to sign up for something but don't want a stranger getting spammed https://www.acma.gov.au/phone-numbers-use-tv-shows-films-and-creative-works
Kinda cool to see a stream train on the #melbourne Metro network but I have questions about who thought it was okay to run it under the southern cross roof where it made the air visibly dirty
Love waking up to find out six hours ago someone edited a toot I’d boosted to say something wildly different and kinda problematic. There should be a limit to how much you can edit toots that have been boosted. Fix a typo? Absolutely. Totally change the content? No